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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five minutes to tie the shoelaces. Keys, watch, wallet. The first picture in there was his driver's license, grinning, sun-tanned from water-skiing, so long ago. He flipped the plastic. Oldest son as high school graduate, long gone, ski-bumming in Colorado, a five-minute phone call six months ago was about all. The two girls and the youngest baby boy--all living with their mother across town, way across town...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Sorrow is Such Sweet Parting | 6/5/1979 | See Source »

...scene, adjust a set. Says Stein: "You need a sixth sense, a feeling for where the show dips." The doctor's bill partly depends upon his success in salvaging the show. There is usually a flat fee, ranging from about $10,000 to $30,000 for five or six weeks' work, and often a percentage of the show's revenues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Is There a Doctor in the House? | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Blue Mitchell, 49, lyrical jazz trumpeter who performed and recorded with Horace Silver's combo for six years (High Heeled Sneakers) and most recently with his own Blue Mitchell-Harold Land Quintet (Smooth as the Wind); of cancer; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 4, 1979 | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...seemed possible. Then the Canadiens found the miracle wrecker in Left Wing Bob Gainey. Gainey is the stuff of dynasties as surely as are Lafleur, Jean Beliveau and Maurice ("Rocket") Richard from earlier teams, an example of the depth of talent that Montreal assembles to support its stars. In six N.H.L. seasons, Gainey, 25, has averaged fewer than 15 goals a year, concentrating instead on the less dramatic, but equally vital skills of a defensive forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Dynasty Spoils a Miracle | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...together by Bob Gill and Robert Rabinowitz, the pair that helped create Beatlemania, Lincoln Center's 30-minute son et lumière is an outsized history of the six-building performing arts complex, from its groundbreaking in May 1959, through its shaky early years, to its reasonably tranquil present. The movie, which will run through Labor Day, may not be the best show in New York City, but it is indisputably the biggest and one of the most pleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lincoln Center's Big Bash | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

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